Improvement in match-machines



i UNITED STATEs PATENT'OEFIGE.

EMERY ANDREWS AND WILLIAM TUCKER, OF PORTLAND, MAINE, ASSIGNORS TO STAR MATCH CORPORATION, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MATCH-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N oj 84,464, dated December 1, 1868.

y To all whom it may. concern:

Be it known that we, EMERY ANDREWS and WILLIAM TUCKER, both of Portland, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Ma chines for Cutting Veneers or MatchCards; and we hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others to make and usevourinvention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming partof this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan of an improved slasher. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same Fig. 3, a detached plan of one of the slides, and one of' the receivers and conductors; Fig. 4, a side elevation-of a detached section of the wheel.

The object of our invention is to out veneers, or match-cards, in the usual way, and then stack them in form for handling, instead of scattering them on the door, as is usually done.

Our improvements consist in providing a rotary Slasher with a receiving-box, set opposite the trough in which the blocks are placed to be cut into cards, for receiving the cards after they are cut from the block; also, in providing slides, set in the bottom of the receiving-box, which are driven forward into groovesin the wheel by springs or other devices, for the purpose of preventing the vcards from falling when out from the block, which slides are driven back by the bevels of the knives, throats of the wheel, and cam which is attached to the wheel; also, in providing the wheel with grooves to receive the slides already mentioned; also, in providing the wheel with cams, placed opposite the knives, which force the card, as it is being cut from the block, on to thc receivers and conductors, which are placed in the receivingbox.

A represents a frame, made of any suitable material; B,the wheel, mounted on the frame, to which are attached the knives o and the cams d.

, H is the receiving-box, in the bottom of which the slides o are set, which slides are driven into the grooves t' by means of spiral springs h, or other devices. m m Iare the receivers and conductors, set in the sides of the receivingbox H. G is the trough in which the blocks are placed to be cut into veneersv or cards.

Having indicated all the parts which are necessary to attach our improvement to the common card-Slasher, We will proceed to explain the operation of the machine, which,

so far as merely cutting the cards from the block is concered, is the same as usual in simi-l round the block, being pressed against the wheel', cuts off a card, and as soon as the knife has passed the block, the force which is constantly applied to the block carries it again up to the wheel before the next knife reaches it,

when another card is cut, as many cards being cut at each revolution of the wheel as there are knives on the same.

Thus far the operation of the machine is the same as that of the ordinary sIaSher; but by' that the cards would, when cut from the block, pass through the throats n, and drop promiscuously on the iioor.

' By our improved method we obviate the trouble and expense of gathering them up and arranging them in regular order again, for in the operation of cu ttin g, when the card is nearly severed from the block, the cam d on the opposite side of the wheel has pressed the card forward on the metallic receivers and conductors m m, on which it is held and moved forward by the accumulation of successive cards, until it is well secured in the receivingbox H.

The cards are thus kept in regular order by means ofthe cams d d and the receivers and conductors m m alone 5 but in order to insure all the cards being caught with certainty, just before the knives reach the block to cut a card from it, the grooves t are in position opposite the slides o, and the slides are instantly forced into the grooves bythe action of the springs h, and as far through the wheel as may be and not be struck by the edges of passing knives. Being thus under the card before it is quite pass. After the cam has .passedthe slides are held against the Wheel bythe springs h until the next set of grooves reaches them,

when they operate as before.

By the use of our improvement the 'cards are thus stacked in the receiving-box in the desired form for handling, and the laborious and expensive manner 'of gathering them'from the door andthus stacking them is obviated.`

The slides may be used independentlyy of the cams' and receivers, orthe cams and receivers maybe used independently of the-"slides, and in either Way the desired result will be accomplished.

The several operations of the different parts, which operate'conjoiritly to do the Work in our machine, are as follows; The combination of the cams d d With'the' receivers and conductors nim inthe receiving-box H imparts vsuch inclination to the match-cards las insures their so landing on lthe 'receivers cir-conductors as to be then carried foryvard bythe successive accumulations ofthe cards thereon;

Thevjoint operation of `the slidesho, grooves t' on the Wheel B, and the springs h prevents the card from falling as vit is out from the block, and secures the placing of the slides under the card before it is ciit entirely clear from the block.

Furthermore, bytheir means the card,'as it passes through the throat n, is held in the same position as the block from which it was cut. The cams and throat then direct the card, as it passes onto the conductors, in the receiving-box.

lThe cams d d and throats u are both concerhed 'in giving'theproper'incliration to the cards, and in securing the passage of the cards through the throat onto the receiver. i i What we claim as oiir inventin, and desire to'sec'ure by Letters `Patent, i's- 1. The combination of the cams d d with the receivers yand conductors m 'm in the receivingboxH,'a's 'and for the purposesspeciiied. The combination and arrangement of the slides o and grooves i on the'vvheel B, and the spring h, in connection with the receivers and conductols m m inthe receiving-box H, substan'tially'a's 'and for the described purposes.

EMERY ANDREWS. WILLIAM TUCKER..

Witnesses:

WM. H. CLIFFORD, HENRY G. HosrroN. 

